{"id":3869,"date":"2010-09-27T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2010-09-27T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T06:00:00","slug":"are-paperback-original-lesser-works-than-hardbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3869","title":{"rendered":"Are Paperback Original Lesser Works than Hardbacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joanne Kaufman writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703597204575483891874993932.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5\">paperbacks<\/a> for the Wall Street Journal, saying many people prefer hardbacks. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The belief that a paperback original, however worthy, will be given short shrift by reviewers tells part of the story. &#8220;Critics pay more attention to hardcovers even if they say they don&#8217;t,&#8221; said one agent who requested anonymity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vanity plays a role, an anonymous publisher tells Ms. Kaufman. &#8220;In almost every deal I do, the agent tries to get a contractual hardcover commitment even if the book isn&#8217;t written yet and down the road it might become clear that paperback original is the way to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanne Kaufman writes about paperbacks for the Wall Street Journal, saying many people prefer hardbacks. The belief that a paperback original, however worthy, will be given short shrift by reviewers tells part of the story. &#8220;Critics pay more attention to hardcovers even if they say they don&#8217;t,&#8221; said one agent who requested anonymity. Vanity plays &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3869\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are Paperback Original Lesser Works than Hardbacks?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling","category-publishing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}